Question For Vikas: Select List Colors

Question

Vikas,
I've seen somewhere
you posted a site:
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=24317:104
Can you still do that with an htmldb_item.select_list?
If yes how can you do that because I've been struggling
for weeks to find this answer and all of a sudden now
I've seen your example
Thank you

Answer 1

My example is a variant of the master's example (Carl Backstrom) of a similar nature.
Basically, the styling is done with a Javascript in the region footer, so you can apply it to anything. The code is
var pThis = document.getElementById('P104_SELECT');
var pThose = pThis.getElementsByTagName('OPTION');
for(var j=0;j < pThose.length;j++){
    pThose[j].style.background = pThose[j].value;
}Basically, the select list option value itself is the color name.
Things get a little trickier in a tabular form because you have many select lists, but I think the basic concept should hold good. The above code just grabs a specific select list and loops over its options. You would need to wrap it in another loop to grab all the select lists in your tabular form and do the same thing.
Hope this helps.